Many of us are now using Quick Quizzes to help support our comprehension based instruction. We do so because we know the value that daily formative assessment brings to our fluency programs, not the least of which is huge gains in classroom management.
So below is a detail about Quick Quizzes. For more, click on the category at the right side of this page labeled Quick Quizzes.
I got this question:
I had a few brief questions about your daily quizzes and absent students. How do you handle absent students that have missed the daily quiz? How do they make up that quiz since they missed the interaction in class? Is there a concern for the repetitions that they missed and how do they get that?
My response:
It’s all about being in class, as we know. They can’t learn the language if they don’t hear it, they can only learn about it.
If the absence is excused, and since it is obvious that they can’t make up the work, they get a “no grade”. In Infinite Campus that is an X in the grade book – it counts neither for or against the child. It is all you can do.
If the absence is unexcused, I give a zero.
Note that when I put the grades in the computer for each quiz, I put a zero for ALL absent kids and the burden is on the kid to come in the next day with the excuse, at which time I change the O to an X.